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Ye olde mappe is unreliable – get a current version before heading out
Many search and rescue operations have occurred after people have relied on out of date information, writes Noel Bigwood Have you heard the one about the two fit and capable hikers who went for a day walk from Otaki Forks? They had a topo map with them, but it was from 1996 and little did […]

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